10 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



formity of purpose, rather than uniformity of action. 

 New conditions permit the exemplification of new laws 

 or principles of nature, the expression of hitherto un- 

 expressed characteristics or phases of cosmic energy. 

 In this sense, the laws of nature are not immutable. 

 "What is to come in the future is not predictable from 

 what has occurred in the past." It is to-day entirely 

 rational to hope and strive for the appearance in the 

 future of things never yet accomplished. In other 

 words, by way of specific illustration, the fact that 

 wars have punctuated the history of international re- 

 lations throughout the entire life of mankind is no 

 indication that nations must always arm themselves 

 for war. 



There is that in the structure of the universe which 

 in the last few million years of geologic time, in at 

 least one small corner of astronomic space, has been 

 promoting the display of good-will, the aspiration 

 toward brotherliness, the appreciation of beauty, the 

 yearning toward loveliness of character and action. 

 Man is not simply at home in the universe revealed 

 by modern science; his nature has been highly ap- 

 proved and beneficently fostered by the sum total of 

 the cosmic forces which play In upon him from with- 

 out and well up within him like fountains of sweet 

 water in the sea. If it be good for man to have 

 come into existence upon the earth, then are the mo- 

 tive powers of the universe good. 



The record of geologic life development leads di- 

 rectly to the inference that the desires and ambitions 

 of living organisms are determining factors in the 

 operations of the universe. Things are done in order 

 that certain objectives may be reached in the future. 



